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Michigan 14 Texas Tech 22 Jefferson City 35 Southern Cal 27 TsTi 4ol
Ohio State 3 Houston 21 Hazeiwood 21 Notre Dame 25 Tulane 21 1
71st Year No. 63 Gooil Morning! It's Sumlny. November 26. 1978 5 Sections 70 Pages 35 Cent
Refueling truck
sparks oil fire
south of Joplin
JOPLIN ( AP) A fire destroyed an oil company
warehouse, ignited several oil storage tanks and caused
several oil drums to explode south of Joplin Saturday, but was
brought under control within four hours.
There were no injuries, and firefighters who battled the
blaze in a cold rain said the fire was allowed to burn itself out.
Fire Chief Rex Marshall said the fire apparently started
while employees at Henson Oil Co., on U. S. 71 south of Joplin,
were filling a tanker with gasoline from a large storage tank
outside the warehouse. Marshall added that he was not certain
what caused the fire.
Bob Henson, president of the company, estimated damage
from the fire at more than $ 250,000.
For several hours, the fire swept uncontrolled through the
warehouse and was visible burning; on top of some of the
storage tanks. None of the large storage tanks exploded. A few
smaller drums of oil stored on the grounds blew up.
Fire officials issued a plea to surrounding communities for
help in battling the blaze and seven responded. Because of the
lack of water in the area, firefighters drove their tanker trucks
about half a mile (. 8 kilometers) to refill them.
The company warehouse was located about 100 yards ( 90
meters) behind a service station- truc- k stop along the highway.
A worker at the station reported the fire.
" First there was an explosion . . . We heard a little boom go
off," said Frank Vance, an employee of a recreational vehicles
store across the street from the fire. " It shook the windows
here, and when we looked across the street, the flames were
rolling."
offers a look at murals -- m M
muralists who produce lllllii
Coming tlil week
On Friday, it was announced that James Lundsted,
Water and Light department director, had asked to be
relieved of his duties. The upcoming management
turnover signals a change in direction for the depart-ment.
On Tuesday, the Columbia Missourian will begin a
I
five- pa- rt series examining the operation of the Water
and Light Department. The series, entitled, " Power to
the City," begins Tuesday only in the Missourian.
Im wm If nalay
12: 15 p. m. " The Big Corporation," Part of the John
Kenneth Galbraith Film Series. Windsor Lounge,
Stephens College.
7 p. m-- " Chemical Feast," Film. Columbia Public
Library.
7: 30 p. m. Public Hearing on proposed cablevision rate
increase. City Council chambers in the County- Cit- y
building.
Robert Gilmartin
Mousa El- Musw- as restores a window in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third
holiest Islamic site.
. 1
By Robert Gilmartin
Middle East reporting program
JERUSALEM " Allah akahar . . . Allah
Akbhar." " Allah is great . . . Allah is the One."
Five times a day, these words call Moslems to
prayer at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third
holiest Islamic site, where the prophet Moham-med
is said to have ascended to heaven.
Egyptain President Anwar Sadat answered the
Insight
call to pray at Al Aqsa during his historic visit to
Jerusalem last November.
Al Aqsa has been a place for Moslems to join in
prayer for centuries. But today the restoration of
this revered mosque has threatened to divide
Islam for political as well as technical reasons.
Fire damaged Al Aqsa in 1969. Since then a
group of Palestinian Moslems have been restoring
the mosque with local craftsmen and funds from
West Bank Arabs and Jordan.
" For us here in Palestine, it is a symbol of our
existence," said Isam Awwad, resident engineer
of the Al Aqsa Mosque Restoration Committee.
But the committee has found the restoration
difficult. " This is the work of a government, and
since we don't have a government, then we are
facing this difficulty alone," Awwad said.
Since President Sadat's visit, Egypt has offered
to help with the restoration of Al Aqsa. But the
committee has discovered it may have to decline
the offer.
With Egypt's offer to send engineers to Al Aqsa
again, Awwad was skeptical.
" I think this is one of their political intentions, or
they are going to use Al Aqsa for political in-tentions,"
Awwad said.
The West Bank engineer and architect thought
some of the other Islamic countries might object
( See FIRE, Page 11A)
Jonestown
body removal
GEORGETOWN, Guyana ( UPI)
U. S. Army burial teams Saturday
removed the last of at least 909 bodies
from the Peoples Temple commune at
Jonestown almost one week to the
hour after they died together in one of
history's most bizarre suicide rites.
" The last of the bodies has been
removed," the U. S. Embassy an-nounced
at 5 : 45 p. m. EST.
A U. S. State Department spokesman
said the latest number for those who
died in the suicide masscre was 909. A
U. S. Embassy spokesman in
Georgetown said earlier the death
count had reached about 900 but " this is
not the final figure."
The recovery operation took about
three days, exceeding early ex-pectations
as the initial body count
more than doubled by the time the
graves registration teams finished
their task at the Rev. Jim Jones' jungle
commune.
There were still discrepancies in the
figures. Guyanese officials had turned
. over 803 American passports to the U. S.
Embassy and reported that 915
members of the California sect had
registered with Guyanese immigration.
Officials said 39 of the cult members
survived the mass suicide.
The findings dispelled rumors that
hundreds of the members of the
fanatical sect had fled into the jungle to
escape death. A U. S. helicopter flew
along a trail as far as the Venezuela
border Saturday in the faint hope some
may have gone there. The helicopter
landed and crewmen were told no
Americans had been seen.
The U. S. task force had to call for
more shipments of plastic body bags
and aluminum coffins to deal with the
piles of corpses, some of them stacked
three deep around the commune's open- a- ir
pavilion, 150 miles ( 240 kilometers )
northwest of Georgetown.
By noon Saturday, 532 bodies had
been bagged and flown back to the
United States.
Seven newsmen flew to Port Kaituma
and walked along a muddy road into the
Jonestown death camp Friday, in-cluding
United Press International
correspondent Nigel Cumberbatch and
UPI photographer Les Sintay.
Cumberbatch reported that bodies of
numerous dogs were strewn among the
human remains still sprawled in the
Related stories on Page 5B
commune where army trucks were
hauling in bodies to be flown by
helicopter to Georgetown and then to
Dover Air Force Base, Del.
The stench was almost unbearable
and Army military men wore green
gauze masks as they went about the
grim business of putting the bodies into
green plastic body bags.
" I spent 34 months in Vietnam," one
American officer said, " and this is the
worst IVe ever seen. "
The ritual suicide began at sundown a
week ago Saturday at the commune's
open air auditorium fashioned from
tree trunks with a crude tin roof over a
stage holding the throne like chair from
which the Rev. Jim Jones exhorted his
followers to " die with dignity."
Near the chair was a red lettered
slogan " Love One Another."
Still strewn about the stage were
stereo equipment and musical in-struments
including electric guitars
( See CULTIST, Page 14A)
Israeli ultimatum
rejected by Egypt
From our wire services
CAIRO Egypt Saturday- rejecte- d
Israel's " take it or leave it"
ultimatum on the tentative peace
treaty and denounced the Jewish
state's declared refusal to resume
the Washington negotiations as an
obstacle to peace.
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil
also said the wording on the future of
occupied territories should be
changed if the two sides were to
" make this work."
Six U. S. senators met with
President Anwar Sadat, and one of
them, Jacob Javits, R- N.- Y., later
said differences between Egypt and
Israel in the peace negotiations are
" reconcilable and will be recon-ciled."
Egypt's next move in the peace
talks was debated by a high- lev- el
committee. Its findings will be
submitted to Sadat, who will make
the final decision and convey it to
President Carter.
Khalil told reporters Egypt was
urging Israel to resume the
Washington talks, now in their
seventh week, " on the basis of
putting the Egyptian remarks on the
negotiating table."
He rejected recent statements by
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan and Justice Minister Shmuel
Tamir that the Jewish state had
accepted a proposed treaty and
Egypt must now " take it or leave
it."
" We cannot accept such
( See SENATOR, Page 11A )
Boone GOP candidate no longer doomed to defeat
By Teresa Wasson
Missourian staff writer
The results of the Nov. 7 election further
proved what most political observers already
have realized a Republican candidate no
longer is doomed to defeat in Boone County.
But those results also show what even the
political experts have not fully appreciated
when the voters in Columbia have a choice, they
vote Republican more often than not.
In three of the last four general elections
the only exception being 1974, the year of
Watergate Republicans have gathered a
larger percentage of the Columbia total vote in
contested elections than Democrats have. But
the out- coun- ty area still is firmly dominated by
the Democrats.
" It used to be in Boone County if a candidate
was a Democrat he would win no matter what,"
County Clerk Chris Kelly, a Democrat, says.
" Then it was so that a really good Republican
stood a chance of being elected against a
Democrat. Next, if all things were equal, the
Democrat would win.
" Now if all things are equal it could go either
way."
Larry Marshall, former Republican state
senator from Columbia, says he thinks the city
is more independent than Republican. He says
Columbia voters will choose Republicans more
frequently than the county voters because the
. city is more progressive and has undergone
" more changes than the county.
" I think a lot of the out- coun- ty area hasn't
changed that much. A lot of those residents are
still living in Little Dixie," he says.
Kelly says, " I don't think the city is more
Republican or the county more Democratic.
They're both independent.
" Both political party structures are the last to
realize this," he adds. He says he believes the
county as a whole votes more, independently
than the other counties in the state because the
voters here are well- educate- d.
This year the GOP captured 54 percent of the
city's vote in contested races voted on by both
the city and the county. In the county, however,
the Democrats won 55 percent of the vote.
In 1976 Columbia Republicans got 51 percent
while Democrats got 49 percent In the county,
though, Democrats dominated with 58 percent of
the vote.
Even the backlash of the Watergate scandal in
1974 did not have much of an adverse affect on
Republican strength in Columbia where the
party gathered 49 percent of the total vote in
contested races. In the out- count- y precincts
Republicans lost big, getting only 39 percent of
the vote.
Republicans consider 1972 to be one of their
best years the year the party won most of the
races it had candidates for. The figures support
that conclusion. The party got 53 percent of
Columbia's vote and 48 percent of the county's
vote the largest percentage the party has
gotten in the county in the last four elections.
In 1978 Republicans won many races coun- tywid- e.
The closest and hardest fought race,
Division I magistrate judge, appears to have
been won in Columbia. Milt Harper, the
Republican, got 54 percent of the Columbia vote,
while Democrat Temple Morgett received 56
percent of the rural vote. Seventy percent of the
votes cast in that race came from Columbia.
One of the big surprises of the recent election
was the defeat of Richard Ichord by Boone
County voters. Although he won the district as a
whole, his Republican opponent, Don Meyer,
captured Boone County by getting 57 percent of
the Columbia vote. In the rural areas of Boone,
however, Meyer got only 42 percent of the vote.
Nevertheless, that is much better than an Ichord
opponent has done in recent elections.
In another 1978 race, Presiding Judge Bill
Freeh, Republican, won 73 percent of Colum-bia's
vote, and while he got a majority of the out- coun- ty
vote, it was a much smaller percentage --
56 - than the city voters gave him.
Kelly says he figures about 22 percent of the
voters are hard- lin- e' Republicans while 25
percent are Democrats. That leaves 54 percent
of the voters who are independent and will vote
on the basis of the candidates.
Kelly's figures seem to hold when compared
with election returns from 1978. Using the 1978
state auditor and county clerk races as
measures of straight- tick- et voters, Democrat
Warren Hearnes got 27 percent of all the Boone
County votes in the aifditor race while
Republican Fred Obermiller received 22 per-cent
of all the votes in the county clerk race.
Marshall says the Republican candidates are
successful because they have been " better"
than their Democratic opponents and have
performed well after taking office. He adds that
they have not fit the conservative stereotype of
the typical Republican, which has proved to be
an asset.
" Republicans have been as progressive in
many areas, if not more so, than their
Democratic counterparts," he says. Examples
of Republican progressiveness include the
support of decriminalization of marijuana and
of the Equal Rights Amendment by the county's
two Republican state representatives, he says.
County Collector Roger Wilson, a Democrat,
( See DEMOCRATS', Page 14A)

Michigan 14 Texas Tech 22 Jefferson City 35 Southern Cal 27 TsTi 4ol
Ohio State 3 Houston 21 Hazeiwood 21 Notre Dame 25 Tulane 21 1
71st Year No. 63 Gooil Morning! It's Sumlny. November 26. 1978 5 Sections 70 Pages 35 Cent
Refueling truck
sparks oil fire
south of Joplin
JOPLIN ( AP) A fire destroyed an oil company
warehouse, ignited several oil storage tanks and caused
several oil drums to explode south of Joplin Saturday, but was
brought under control within four hours.
There were no injuries, and firefighters who battled the
blaze in a cold rain said the fire was allowed to burn itself out.
Fire Chief Rex Marshall said the fire apparently started
while employees at Henson Oil Co., on U. S. 71 south of Joplin,
were filling a tanker with gasoline from a large storage tank
outside the warehouse. Marshall added that he was not certain
what caused the fire.
Bob Henson, president of the company, estimated damage
from the fire at more than $ 250,000.
For several hours, the fire swept uncontrolled through the
warehouse and was visible burning; on top of some of the
storage tanks. None of the large storage tanks exploded. A few
smaller drums of oil stored on the grounds blew up.
Fire officials issued a plea to surrounding communities for
help in battling the blaze and seven responded. Because of the
lack of water in the area, firefighters drove their tanker trucks
about half a mile (. 8 kilometers) to refill them.
The company warehouse was located about 100 yards ( 90
meters) behind a service station- truc- k stop along the highway.
A worker at the station reported the fire.
" First there was an explosion . . . We heard a little boom go
off," said Frank Vance, an employee of a recreational vehicles
store across the street from the fire. " It shook the windows
here, and when we looked across the street, the flames were
rolling."
offers a look at murals -- m M
muralists who produce lllllii
Coming tlil week
On Friday, it was announced that James Lundsted,
Water and Light department director, had asked to be
relieved of his duties. The upcoming management
turnover signals a change in direction for the depart-ment.
On Tuesday, the Columbia Missourian will begin a
I
five- pa- rt series examining the operation of the Water
and Light Department. The series, entitled, " Power to
the City," begins Tuesday only in the Missourian.
Im wm If nalay
12: 15 p. m. " The Big Corporation," Part of the John
Kenneth Galbraith Film Series. Windsor Lounge,
Stephens College.
7 p. m-- " Chemical Feast," Film. Columbia Public
Library.
7: 30 p. m. Public Hearing on proposed cablevision rate
increase. City Council chambers in the County- Cit- y
building.
Robert Gilmartin
Mousa El- Musw- as restores a window in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third
holiest Islamic site.
. 1
By Robert Gilmartin
Middle East reporting program
JERUSALEM " Allah akahar . . . Allah
Akbhar." " Allah is great . . . Allah is the One."
Five times a day, these words call Moslems to
prayer at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third
holiest Islamic site, where the prophet Moham-med
is said to have ascended to heaven.
Egyptain President Anwar Sadat answered the
Insight
call to pray at Al Aqsa during his historic visit to
Jerusalem last November.
Al Aqsa has been a place for Moslems to join in
prayer for centuries. But today the restoration of
this revered mosque has threatened to divide
Islam for political as well as technical reasons.
Fire damaged Al Aqsa in 1969. Since then a
group of Palestinian Moslems have been restoring
the mosque with local craftsmen and funds from
West Bank Arabs and Jordan.
" For us here in Palestine, it is a symbol of our
existence," said Isam Awwad, resident engineer
of the Al Aqsa Mosque Restoration Committee.
But the committee has found the restoration
difficult. " This is the work of a government, and
since we don't have a government, then we are
facing this difficulty alone," Awwad said.
Since President Sadat's visit, Egypt has offered
to help with the restoration of Al Aqsa. But the
committee has discovered it may have to decline
the offer.
With Egypt's offer to send engineers to Al Aqsa
again, Awwad was skeptical.
" I think this is one of their political intentions, or
they are going to use Al Aqsa for political in-tentions,"
Awwad said.
The West Bank engineer and architect thought
some of the other Islamic countries might object
( See FIRE, Page 11A)
Jonestown
body removal
GEORGETOWN, Guyana ( UPI)
U. S. Army burial teams Saturday
removed the last of at least 909 bodies
from the Peoples Temple commune at
Jonestown almost one week to the
hour after they died together in one of
history's most bizarre suicide rites.
" The last of the bodies has been
removed," the U. S. Embassy an-nounced
at 5 : 45 p. m. EST.
A U. S. State Department spokesman
said the latest number for those who
died in the suicide masscre was 909. A
U. S. Embassy spokesman in
Georgetown said earlier the death
count had reached about 900 but " this is
not the final figure."
The recovery operation took about
three days, exceeding early ex-pectations
as the initial body count
more than doubled by the time the
graves registration teams finished
their task at the Rev. Jim Jones' jungle
commune.
There were still discrepancies in the
figures. Guyanese officials had turned
. over 803 American passports to the U. S.
Embassy and reported that 915
members of the California sect had
registered with Guyanese immigration.
Officials said 39 of the cult members
survived the mass suicide.
The findings dispelled rumors that
hundreds of the members of the
fanatical sect had fled into the jungle to
escape death. A U. S. helicopter flew
along a trail as far as the Venezuela
border Saturday in the faint hope some
may have gone there. The helicopter
landed and crewmen were told no
Americans had been seen.
The U. S. task force had to call for
more shipments of plastic body bags
and aluminum coffins to deal with the
piles of corpses, some of them stacked
three deep around the commune's open- a- ir
pavilion, 150 miles ( 240 kilometers )
northwest of Georgetown.
By noon Saturday, 532 bodies had
been bagged and flown back to the
United States.
Seven newsmen flew to Port Kaituma
and walked along a muddy road into the
Jonestown death camp Friday, in-cluding
United Press International
correspondent Nigel Cumberbatch and
UPI photographer Les Sintay.
Cumberbatch reported that bodies of
numerous dogs were strewn among the
human remains still sprawled in the
Related stories on Page 5B
commune where army trucks were
hauling in bodies to be flown by
helicopter to Georgetown and then to
Dover Air Force Base, Del.
The stench was almost unbearable
and Army military men wore green
gauze masks as they went about the
grim business of putting the bodies into
green plastic body bags.
" I spent 34 months in Vietnam," one
American officer said, " and this is the
worst IVe ever seen. "
The ritual suicide began at sundown a
week ago Saturday at the commune's
open air auditorium fashioned from
tree trunks with a crude tin roof over a
stage holding the throne like chair from
which the Rev. Jim Jones exhorted his
followers to " die with dignity."
Near the chair was a red lettered
slogan " Love One Another."
Still strewn about the stage were
stereo equipment and musical in-struments
including electric guitars
( See CULTIST, Page 14A)
Israeli ultimatum
rejected by Egypt
From our wire services
CAIRO Egypt Saturday- rejecte- d
Israel's " take it or leave it"
ultimatum on the tentative peace
treaty and denounced the Jewish
state's declared refusal to resume
the Washington negotiations as an
obstacle to peace.
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil
also said the wording on the future of
occupied territories should be
changed if the two sides were to
" make this work."
Six U. S. senators met with
President Anwar Sadat, and one of
them, Jacob Javits, R- N.- Y., later
said differences between Egypt and
Israel in the peace negotiations are
" reconcilable and will be recon-ciled."
Egypt's next move in the peace
talks was debated by a high- lev- el
committee. Its findings will be
submitted to Sadat, who will make
the final decision and convey it to
President Carter.
Khalil told reporters Egypt was
urging Israel to resume the
Washington talks, now in their
seventh week, " on the basis of
putting the Egyptian remarks on the
negotiating table."
He rejected recent statements by
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan and Justice Minister Shmuel
Tamir that the Jewish state had
accepted a proposed treaty and
Egypt must now " take it or leave
it."
" We cannot accept such
( See SENATOR, Page 11A )
Boone GOP candidate no longer doomed to defeat
By Teresa Wasson
Missourian staff writer
The results of the Nov. 7 election further
proved what most political observers already
have realized a Republican candidate no
longer is doomed to defeat in Boone County.
But those results also show what even the
political experts have not fully appreciated
when the voters in Columbia have a choice, they
vote Republican more often than not.
In three of the last four general elections
the only exception being 1974, the year of
Watergate Republicans have gathered a
larger percentage of the Columbia total vote in
contested elections than Democrats have. But
the out- coun- ty area still is firmly dominated by
the Democrats.
" It used to be in Boone County if a candidate
was a Democrat he would win no matter what,"
County Clerk Chris Kelly, a Democrat, says.
" Then it was so that a really good Republican
stood a chance of being elected against a
Democrat. Next, if all things were equal, the
Democrat would win.
" Now if all things are equal it could go either
way."
Larry Marshall, former Republican state
senator from Columbia, says he thinks the city
is more independent than Republican. He says
Columbia voters will choose Republicans more
frequently than the county voters because the
. city is more progressive and has undergone
" more changes than the county.
" I think a lot of the out- coun- ty area hasn't
changed that much. A lot of those residents are
still living in Little Dixie," he says.
Kelly says, " I don't think the city is more
Republican or the county more Democratic.
They're both independent.
" Both political party structures are the last to
realize this," he adds. He says he believes the
county as a whole votes more, independently
than the other counties in the state because the
voters here are well- educate- d.
This year the GOP captured 54 percent of the
city's vote in contested races voted on by both
the city and the county. In the county, however,
the Democrats won 55 percent of the vote.
In 1976 Columbia Republicans got 51 percent
while Democrats got 49 percent In the county,
though, Democrats dominated with 58 percent of
the vote.
Even the backlash of the Watergate scandal in
1974 did not have much of an adverse affect on
Republican strength in Columbia where the
party gathered 49 percent of the total vote in
contested races. In the out- count- y precincts
Republicans lost big, getting only 39 percent of
the vote.
Republicans consider 1972 to be one of their
best years the year the party won most of the
races it had candidates for. The figures support
that conclusion. The party got 53 percent of
Columbia's vote and 48 percent of the county's
vote the largest percentage the party has
gotten in the county in the last four elections.
In 1978 Republicans won many races coun- tywid- e.
The closest and hardest fought race,
Division I magistrate judge, appears to have
been won in Columbia. Milt Harper, the
Republican, got 54 percent of the Columbia vote,
while Democrat Temple Morgett received 56
percent of the rural vote. Seventy percent of the
votes cast in that race came from Columbia.
One of the big surprises of the recent election
was the defeat of Richard Ichord by Boone
County voters. Although he won the district as a
whole, his Republican opponent, Don Meyer,
captured Boone County by getting 57 percent of
the Columbia vote. In the rural areas of Boone,
however, Meyer got only 42 percent of the vote.
Nevertheless, that is much better than an Ichord
opponent has done in recent elections.
In another 1978 race, Presiding Judge Bill
Freeh, Republican, won 73 percent of Colum-bia's
vote, and while he got a majority of the out- coun- ty
vote, it was a much smaller percentage --
56 - than the city voters gave him.
Kelly says he figures about 22 percent of the
voters are hard- lin- e' Republicans while 25
percent are Democrats. That leaves 54 percent
of the voters who are independent and will vote
on the basis of the candidates.
Kelly's figures seem to hold when compared
with election returns from 1978. Using the 1978
state auditor and county clerk races as
measures of straight- tick- et voters, Democrat
Warren Hearnes got 27 percent of all the Boone
County votes in the aifditor race while
Republican Fred Obermiller received 22 per-cent
of all the votes in the county clerk race.
Marshall says the Republican candidates are
successful because they have been " better"
than their Democratic opponents and have
performed well after taking office. He adds that
they have not fit the conservative stereotype of
the typical Republican, which has proved to be
an asset.
" Republicans have been as progressive in
many areas, if not more so, than their
Democratic counterparts," he says. Examples
of Republican progressiveness include the
support of decriminalization of marijuana and
of the Equal Rights Amendment by the county's
two Republican state representatives, he says.
County Collector Roger Wilson, a Democrat,
( See DEMOCRATS', Page 14A)